History Main / Waxwork

* ''VideoGame/{{Waxworks|1992}}'', a 1992 point-and-click horror video game.

Waxwork may refer to:

* ''VideoGame/WaxWorks'', a point-and-click horror video game.

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''Waxwork'' is a horror-comedy released in 1988.

A mysterious wax museum shows up in a suburban neighborhood one night. Mark and his friends are naturally curious about it, but they soon find out the owner's true intentions. It turns out anyone who enters the museum dies after being sucked into one of the displays [[spoiler: (unless they can convince themselves that [[YourMindMakesItReal it's not real]])]]. When the right amount of people die in the museum, all of the waxworks will come to life and help the owner take over the world.

Thankfully, Mark's grandfather and his friends have been on the owner's tail for decades and are ready to help Mark and his girlfriend, Sarah, fight against the waxworks.

A sequel, ''Waxwork 2: Lost in Time'', was released in 1992. It takes place immediately after the first film, with Sarah's father being murdered by a wax hand that escaped destruction hours before. Sarah's case for her innocence looks bad, thanks to no one believing her and Mark's claims about the wax museum. When they go to Mark's grandfather's mansion, they find a magic compass that allows them to travel through time. Believing it can be used to get evidence for the trial, the two of them start going through time and space while ending up in sci-fi and horror film parodies along the way.
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!!This contains examples of:

* AbusiveParents: Sarah's dad despises her because she reminds him of her mother, so he's constantly screaming at and hitting her.
* AncientTomb: The cop investigating the wax museum ends up in the {{Mummy}}'s tomb exhibit.
* DistressedDamsel: Sarah is one at first, but gradually becomes an ActionGirl.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Zombies are included in the exhibits of the first movie. Zombies appear again in the second movie in one of the alternate timelines reminiscient of ''DawnOfTheDead''.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted hard in both movies.
* HelpingHands: The wax hand that kills Sarah's dad, of course!
* MustHaveCaffeine: Mark's need for caffeine is introduced early in the first film, then it's promptly dropped.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: "They made a ''movie'' about the Phantom of the Opera?"
* SwordFight: Mark duels Scarabis through different time periods in the climactic fight of the second film.

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: "They made a ''movie'' about the Phantom of the Opera?"

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: [[{{Gremlins}} Gizmo's owner]] is Mark.
** BruceCampbell appears as a ghost investigator in the ''TheHaunting'' parody segment in the second film.

* SwordFight: Mark duels Scarabis through different time periods in the climactic fight of the second film.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Original script for the first film had [[{{Friday the 13th}} Jason Voorhees]], the children from ''VillageOfTheDamned'', TheGolem and TheThing among the exhibits.

A mysterious wax museum shows up in a suburban neighborhood one night. Mark and his friends are naturally curious about it, but they soon find out the owner's true intentions. It turns out anyone who enters the museum dies after being sucked into one of the displays [[spoiler: (unless they can convince themselves that it's not real)]]. When the right amount of people die in the museum, all of the waxworks will come to life and help the owner take over the world.

*AbusiveParents: Sarah's dad despises her because she reminds him of her mother, so he's constantly screaming at and hitting her.
*AncientTomb: The cop investigating the wax museum ends up in the Mummy's tomb exhibit.
*DistressedDamsel: Sarah is one at first, but gradually becomes an ActionGirl.
*EvilHand: The wax hand that kills Sarah's dad, of course!
*GoryDiscretionShot: Averted hard in both movies.